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I just got home from teaching and getting certified as a driving instructor over on the western slope.
For those that don't know, the western slope in Colorado is basically everything west of the continental divide; Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs, Montrose, Delta and so forth. A guy that I used to work with on the PD called me up a few months ago. He moved over there several years ago and opened The Western Slope Driving Institute in Montrose, Delta, Junction and Glenwood. He has been super successful with it and wants to expand into the Denver market. So I spent last week over there learning the curriculum and getting certified to teach, i still have to take a class with the state at the end of Sept to make it official.
He originally wanted me to start up and run a school over here in the metro area, but as I explored the western slope and realized how laid back and small townish it is over there, he threw out the option of me taking over two of the schools there if I wanted to move over there (he has been wanting to get back to Denver himself).
So after many discussions with Michelle and the kids, we are thinking there is a move in our not so distant future (spring 2012). We really like the Montrose/Delta area and property value over there would allow me to upgrade to something with about 10 acres with no immediate neighbors and a house comparable to what we have now, basically for what we have tied up in our current house.
Looking around over there, there are two circle tracks (1 paved & 1 dirt), a 1/4 mile dragstrip, and all the 4 wheeling/rock crawling a guy like me could stand all within an hour's drive. Plus I'd be roughly 2 1/2 hours from Moab!
I'm pretty stoked about this ....just thought I'd share with my BS family.
For those that don't know, the western slope in Colorado is basically everything west of the continental divide; Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs, Montrose, Delta and so forth. A guy that I used to work with on the PD called me up a few months ago. He moved over there several years ago and opened The Western Slope Driving Institute in Montrose, Delta, Junction and Glenwood. He has been super successful with it and wants to expand into the Denver market. So I spent last week over there learning the curriculum and getting certified to teach, i still have to take a class with the state at the end of Sept to make it official.
He originally wanted me to start up and run a school over here in the metro area, but as I explored the western slope and realized how laid back and small townish it is over there, he threw out the option of me taking over two of the schools there if I wanted to move over there (he has been wanting to get back to Denver himself).
So after many discussions with Michelle and the kids, we are thinking there is a move in our not so distant future (spring 2012). We really like the Montrose/Delta area and property value over there would allow me to upgrade to something with about 10 acres with no immediate neighbors and a house comparable to what we have now, basically for what we have tied up in our current house.
Looking around over there, there are two circle tracks (1 paved & 1 dirt), a 1/4 mile dragstrip, and all the 4 wheeling/rock crawling a guy like me could stand all within an hour's drive. Plus I'd be roughly 2 1/2 hours from Moab!
I'm pretty stoked about this ....just thought I'd share with my BS family.
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